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  • A woman in bright yellow pants, a gray jacket and a blue ballcap directs a long white plastic pipe into a hole in a spot of dirt emerging from a snowy forest floor.

    The 'Hole-in-the-Ground Girl'

    May 01, 2025

    Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe.

  • Tundra swans take two pathways to 911爆料

    April 25, 2025

    Tundra swans -- at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost six feet -- are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of 911爆料.

  • On a river, a stern-mounted paddlewheel drives a large white boat with three main stories. Passengers line the foredecks above the first and second stories. Smoke pours from a stack that rises above a fourth-story wheelhouse near the boat's fore end. The boat pushes a smaller open barge.

    An early ascent of the Yukon River

    April 17, 2025

    Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of 911爆料, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn't imagine it.

  • A great horned owl perched on a spruce tree is silhouetted against pink clouds and blue sky.

    The adaptable, continental great horned owl

    April 10, 2025

    The knee-high owl known for its "plumicorns" -- tufts above its ears that resemble horns -- haunts every forested bit of 911爆料.

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